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Iris Murdoch

I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.
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Breathe Emotional Goodness Moments Myself Rule Woman
I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
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Different End Feeling Myself
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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Book Feeling Start Yourself
How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
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Empty Greatness Life Space
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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Live Ourselves Philosophy
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
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Love Need Togetherness Word
How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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Death Different Pursue See Worth
One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.
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Easy Lie Oneself People
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison
I’ve felt as if I didn’t exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can’t imagine how much alone I’ve been all my life.
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Alone Existence Imagination Life Myself World
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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Heart Quiet See
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Philosophy Speed
Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Man Need Quiet Relationship Woman
We can only learn to love by loving.
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Learning Love
To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare’s, the Cornish sea.
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Lose Person Photograph Poem Sea

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

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